Those people stood up and saluted Zhou Ping, Zhou Ping looked at the muddy water on the soldiers' bodies, and said: "Let's get here today, let's go back and change our clothes first, cook some hot soup and drink, the wind is strong on the mountain, and it is easy to get cold when it is wet!" ”

"Thank you, Captain!" Everyone thanked him.

Zhou Ping nodded, returned to the general stage and smiled at Yang Wu: "These words are thanks to Coach Yang, but in less than two months, I have practiced well, and I have wasted a lot of hard work, right?" ”

"This is the proper duty of subordinates, and there is no need to be polite in prison!" Yang Wu hurriedly bowed and saluted, at this time he was wearing a cyan round-necked robe, although he was still a little embarrassed in front of Zhou Ping, but the gloomy color on his face had already been swept away. No matter what happened in the past, now he has become a military attache of the imperial court from a bandit, this is a glorious lintel, compared to such an important matter, the arrow he suffered in the past can only be recognized by pinching his nose, after all, he can't go back to the grass for revenge!

"Hmm!" Zhou Ping nodded: "But it's not enough to have a strict queue and know the orders. Wu Zi said: 'Fighting without teaching is what it means to be a many! The way of the five soldiers is the first bow and crossbow, spear and spear, and the skill of spear and spear is biased towards Coach Yang! ”

"Whoa!" Yang Wu hurriedly bowed down to receive the order. Seeing the other party's performance, Zhou Ping nodded with satisfaction. As a former brick mover, Zhou Ping naturally spent time in countless traversal texts in his previous life, after all, this is the cheapest entertainment. Among them, the various training methods can be described as strange, including modern armies, wall charges, etc., and a common feature is that the protagonist who has the knowledge of crossing the times can train into a morale lock of 100 in a short period of time, and an invincible army. But after crossing over and personally participating in several armed fights with neighboring villages and thieves, I realized that the traversal texts I saw in my previous life were infinitely close to all nonsense, if not all nonsense. For example, if someone says that the ancient army can only endure 10% casualties and then collapses, and the Southern army during the Civil War did not break up until more than half of the casualties were killed or wounded, and then concluded that as long as this modern army can be trained, it will be invincible. Let's not talk about whether the psychological impact caused by a rifle a hundred meters away and a white blade close at hand is the same thing (in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing army was able to shoot at the Yue army, but could not resist the white impact of the Yue army, which shows that bullets can also kill, but the psychological impact is far less than the white-edged bayonet close at hand), just look at the civil war period and the ancient state means are completely different, in the Civil War period you were a deserter, the American political axe has enough ways to make you cornered, and you can also pay military pay in full; In ancient society, when deserters were at most, they went up to the mountains to become robbers, and most of the political axes had nothing to do with these deserters, and often ended up recruiting peace, and as for the full payment of military salaries, it was even rarer. As long as you can't clean up those deserters, even if you really give you an army during the Civil War in ancient times, I'm afraid you won't be able to endure many casualties when you start a war, after all, the surnames of people who are good at life and evil death are the same in ancient and modern times, it is nothing more than that modern society has stronger external constraints and internal incentive mechanisms, how can a traveler establish such an external environment out of thin air? An army during the Civil War, I am afraid that it will not be able to endure many casualties when it fights, after all, the surnames of people who are good for life and evil death are the same in ancient and modern times, it is nothing more than that modern society has stronger external constraints and internal incentive mechanisms, how can a traveler establish such an external environment out of thin air?

Therefore, after Zhou Ping's own practice and consulting others, he gradually understood a truth: soldiers are all human beings, no matter how you train, you can't lock your morale on the battlefield. If you want a soldier to have high morale, then you must let him eat his belly, train him strictly, equip him with strong armor and sharp soldiers, win the battle when he fights, die less, and have trophies to catch, so that after several cycles, the morale will naturally be high. No matter what kind of elite troops, no matter how high the reward you usually give and how good the treatment is, if half of the people die in a battle, the morale will fall to a mess, and let them continue to gnaw hard bones, and they will also wail and even mutiny, after all, no matter how good the treatment is, no matter how high the reward is, you must have a life to enjoy it. A typical example is the Jin army, after the destruction of Liao, when they besieged Tokyo twice and pursued Song Gaozong by "searching mountains and checking the sea", their morale was high. But when Jin Wushu was violently beaten by Han Shizhong in Huang Tiandang and almost couldn't cross the river, he never mentioned beating the Yangtze River to capture Song Gaozong's stubble alive. "It's such a frustration. The people are still the same group of people, but the environment is different.

In order to do the above points, Zhou Ping can be said to be ** heartbroken, but fortunately he has a favorable condition - there is no shortage of money. Although the Northern Song Dynasty during the Xuanhe period was a mess in the Song-Liao and Song-Jin wars, it should be said that it had not yet entered the twilight of the dynasty, in addition to the top-level bureaucrats and the emperor's brain-dead, the middle and lower bureaucrats of the whole country still maintained considerable vitality, otherwise they would not be able to rebuild and support the army to repel the southern invasion of the Jin people after losing the capital. Liangshan Shui Village, which was responsible for the task of cracking down on the water thieves who threatened the Gangyun, approved the establishment of a command (the establishment of the Song army, about 500 people) reported by Han Xiaoxuan, and the imperial court was very happy to give money and equipment, and there was no arrears in military salaries.

What's more, through the father-in-law Wu Mu and Wu who lifted the affairs of the Jingdong Prefectures, Zhou Ping also took the antenna of Yang Taifu. As a big man who undertook to promote "Liming Hall, Casting Ding Nai, Qi Dasheng Mansion, and Longde Palace" for Xuanhe Tianzi, Yang Jian Yang Taifu is a person who is very short of money, in order to satisfy Zhao Ji's infinite greed and curiosity, of course, in order to fill his pockets, Yang Jian needs to obtain a huge amount of money, and these money cannot be obtained from normal channels. Therefore, Yang Taifu adopted a system that we modern people are very familiar with - the lump sum system to achieve his own goals: "If you pay enough to the official family, you will leave the Taifu, and the rest will be your own." This simple and straightforward system won the enthusiastic support of his subordinates.

Wu Mu Wu Gonggong is also one of them, in order to exterminate the Liangshan thieves as soon as possible, and start his own tax collection business, he also imitated his lord, promised Zhou Ping, as long as a water area is cleared, you can extract one-tenth of the tax collected from the tax card in the area in return, in order to win Zhou Ping's trust, he even suggested that Zhou Ping send someone to the tax card to be an errand as a witness. From May of the second year of Xuanhe, Zhou Ping could get seven or eight hundred yuan from Wu Mu every month, as well as a lot of grain and cloth, and this alone was enough to pay all the military salaries and miscellaneous expenses of the soldiers under his command. With this financial resource, Zhou Ping was able to maintain the high-intensity training of the soldiers and make all kinds of equipment.

When it comes to equipment, there is a traditional Chinese saying of "five soldiers", the interpretation of the "five soldiers" is different in different historical books, but generally speaking, it is "bow, halberd, spear, sword, and 楯" These five weapons, "Sima Law" in the principle of "soldiers are only mixed" and "soldiers are not mixed", this is not difficult to understand, the "five soldiers" in the bow and crossbow are far away, the spear is longer and is conducive to the plain, the halberd and sword are shorter and conducive to danger, and the sword is used for defense, only in a basic unit hybrid configuration equipped with soldiers with different weapons, In order to be able to defeat the enemy in different environments.

Due to the shortcomings of the Northern Song Dynasty to inherit the five dynasties, and the capital was built in Kaifeng, it was in the place of four wars, and there was no danger to defend. Therefore, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, great importance has been attached to the manufacture and improvement of military armor, and it can be said that the strength of the armor of the Northern Song Dynasty army has reached the peak of China's cold weapon era. In particular, bows and crossbows and armor were beyond the reach of previous generations. But the problem is that according to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, first-class militaristic weapons such as the Divine Arm Bow and the Foot Man Armor, like the local garrison commanded by Zhou Ping, whose main task is to catch thieves, are almost not equipped, even if they are ordinary crossbows and armor, they are only sent out from the treasury when they have to fight, and they must be included in the treasury in peacetime, and it is strictly forbidden to fight by themselves. This is also the reason why Zhishan was so surprised to see the Swiss halberd - it would be good for those water thieves to have a sackcloth to wear, and a simple knife and spear would be enough, and they would not need this kind of militaristic weapon at all.

Since the strong crossbow and armor could not be made privately, Zhou Ping could only find a way to make up for it from other channels. On the one hand, strengthen the intensity of teaching archery, anyway, although crossbows are forbidden in the Northern Song Dynasty, bows are not banned, and it is very common in various folk bow and arrow clubs. As for the armor, then it will have to work on the shield, after all, the shield can also replace the role of part of the armor, and it is also much cheaper.

There are a lot of shields used by soldiers in the water village, mainly rattan and wooden cards from the material, rattan cards are lighter and mainly used to block arrows, wooden cards are heavier and can be used for close combat, because most of these soldiers are water thieves, and the boat fight has to jump up and down, so they prefer to use the convenient rattan on the ship, and the shape of the shield is mainly round, after all, there are few people on the ship who use spears and heavy axes, not to mention to deal with the impact of cavalry, although the round rattan card covers a small area, but it can be covered with the help of the ship's side, and it is almost enough. But on the shore, this round rattan is a big problem, basically can only protect the upper body and face of the soldier, ** there is no defense, generally speaking, ancient armor can rarely protect the limbs of the soldier, and the rattan card in the face of sword and spear assassination, the defense ability is also very worrying.

So Zhou Ping remade a new kind of shield, the shape of the new shield is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, the upper half is semicircular, the shield is about 60 centimeters wide at the widest, 140 centimeters in length, and 15 millimeters thick. (To be continued.) )